Back in May, I discussed how to make dressing – the most low stakes item you could make. Today, I’d like to talk about what you should put that dressing on. I showed you a wedge salad and provided recipes for both a spinach salad and a green salad.
Green Salads
Let’s start by thinking about what makes a great green salad. A great salad should be colorful, have a variety of textures and a balance of flavors: salty, sweet, sour, bitter and savory or umami. Think about the classic salads like a Caesar salad or a spinach salad or a Greek salad. The Caesar has the green of the lettuce, the crunch of the croutons and the creamy dressing. The anchovies and parmesan add a touch of salt and savory. The spinach salad has crispy lettuce, soft eggs and crunchy bacon. Both the mushrooms and bacon add umami. The Greek salad is colorful and gives a wide variety of tastes with the salty feta, lettuce, onions, and oily and slightly bitter olives.
I think the green salad recipe I gave you in the salad dressing post is a nice template for a good salad. It has the green and dull red lettuce and the bright, sweet cherry tomatoes. The pine nuts add some crunch and the dressing is a touch sour from the lemon.
Keep these things in mind as you make a green salad. I like to use a mix of lettuces. Adding radicchio adds a pronounced touch of bitterness. To counter that, I often add dried fruit – raisins, dried cherries, or dried cranberries, even sun-dried tomatoes. I also like to play around with crunchy elements like nuts or roasted chickpeas (Drain a can and toss with olive oil and spices. Bake in a 400 degree oven until crispy, about 20-30 minutes stirring half way through.) Add shredded carrots, jarred roasted red peppers, or halved cherry or grape tomatoes for a hint of sweetness. I also sometimes add roasted veggies like artichokes or Brussels sprouts. Pickled vegetables work well, I like pickled mushrooms or grapes or cherries.
If you want your salad to be a main dish, add roasted chicken or grilled salmon.
Now that you have all these items, stop a moment and edit. The salad I gave you in the dressing post has one element for bitter (lettuce), one for sweet (tomato), one for umami (Parmesan), and one for sour (dressing). It is pretty minimal. A good salad shouldn’t be something of everything you have in the fridge. I don’t like Cobb salad for this reason. The Greek and chef’s salad are pushing it for me. Just too much stuff. Your line will be different. You should experiment to find it.
Salads aren’t limited to various lettuce concoctions, of course. Here are two more possibilities.
Salmon salad
This salmon salad is inspired by “Eat This Not That” grilled salmon salad. It uses grilled salmon, red onions, and cherry tomatoes, green beans or asparagus (or both, why not), capers, and I add a hard boiled egg.
First, slice a few red onions and put it in some red wine vinegar. Both red onions and shallots benefit from being soaked in vinegar. It mellows them out. Grill the salmon and either green beans or asparagus. Add a little dijon mustard to the red wine vinegar and onions and whisk. Add salt and pepper to taste. When the salmon and vegetables are done; chop. Add a little extra virgin olive oil to red wine vinegar and whisk. Then add the salmon and grilled vegetables. Lastly, add a few cherry or grape tomatoes and a sliced hard boiled egg and toss. This salad is just as good cold, so I make at least two servings and set some aside to take for lunch.
Roasted Vegetable Salad
I also like to make roasted vegetable salads. Again, this is something I actually make more than one serving. Roasted veggies are good both hot and cold, so I eat one serving hot as dinner and take the second serving to work for a lunch. You could also toss in a green salad. Paired with a crusty bread, cheese and a good wine, this is a satisfying summer dinner.
I’m always interested in what everyone else is making. Here are two that intrigued me (if I missed including your salad, I apologize).
Check out Timeloose’s Soba Noodle Salad
He uses soba noodles, shredded cabbage, carrots, scallions, red peppers and snow peas and dresses it with a peanut butter dressing made of peanut butter, soy sauce, siracha and vinegar. It’s been added to my rotation. I am in love with this. It offers so many possibilities for experimentation. It’s delicious, as is, but, of course, I can’t resist experimenting with it. So far, I have added leftover pork to the noodles and garlic and fresh grated ginger to the dressing.
Western Sloper’s Simple Summer Salad uses peeled and sliced cucumbers, halved cherry tomatoes, red onion, kosher salt, olive oil and sumac. Serve chilled. I’m going to have to go to the middle eastern market and see if I can find sumac. I’ve never tried it before. I recommend salting the onion before mixing in the rest of the ingredients. It will have a similar effect to soaking it in vinegar and remove some of the harshness.
What are your favorite salads?
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211 responses to “Spontaneous Cooking: Salads”
I love roasted vegetable salads.
First.
My favorite? If I pick one, it’s a salade nicoise. I’m partial to wedge salads and spinach salads, but nicoise is my favorite if I only get one.
I have to put Lyonaisse next to Nicoise.
Nice salads. Salmon one looks very good.
In other news:
Mumu Hilldawg
That’s an odd choice. For someone who has a pretty sophisticated group of people available to her for image consulting that looks like something she’s wearing because she has to, not wants to. Or she’s gone off the deep end. She’s smarter than that, politically-speaking, so my bet is a.) she’s recovering from an operation and can’t wear the usual pantsuit, or b.) she has a condition and has to wear very loose clothing for circulation.
It’s hard telling what is under there besides a back brace and colostomy bag. Maybe Huma?
I’m not even joking, I’ll bet she’s bedridden or dead by the next presidential election. I think she was barely keeping it together before the election and the shock of the loss has done her no favors.
Have you heard some of Pelosi’s recent ramblings? She’s another of the old guard that’s probably not going to last long. Although she’ll probably haunt the Capitol when she’s gone.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Hildawg, and Nancy. Good things come in threes, right?
Your lips to God’s ears.
I just came. I didn’t even have an erection. Didn’t think that was possible.
You are an evil, vengeful, demon-filled wretch. I may be in love.
My gris gris bag brings all the boys to my yard.
*sticks pin in pudgy muu-muu-clad doll’s colostomy bag*
I legitimately don’t get why Hillary dresses the way she does. Like, I’ve never questioned Merkel’s outfits. It’s honestly the most unique thing about her, outside her almost admirable if it wasn’t vomit inducing will to power without purpose.
Honestly, the hippy convention outfit may have just been some attempt to drum up talk about sexism. She looks like the deranged grandma who doesn’t have any grandkids you see at the supermarket and badgers everyone she comes across. But ultimately, no one likes her and even the people who voted for her don’t actual feel remorse that she lost.
Couldn’t say, but Michelle Obama wasn’t much better. Her arms were fine, but the color choices were awful. Most of the time, the cut of her clothes didn’t do her any favors, either.
Women who are in the public eye should not dress themselves and they should go out of their way to find a stylist who’s not going to troll them, intentionally or otherwise.
I wrote a tongue-in-cheek blog post about that ugly $12k jacket she wore on the campaign trail. It was pointed out to me later that she may be wearing a bulletproof vest, which would make sense.
The only other thing I can think: In my mom’s day, pudgy women/girls were not encouraged to wear nicely fitting blouses and skirts or dresses with waists. They wore tent dresses to “hide” the pudge, which really is worse than if they looked a little uncomfortable in tailored clothing.
But Hillary can afford a tailor, so unless she’s gone completely ’round the bend or thinks she looks better in loose clothing, I got nothin’.
Tossing her salad?
Pass.
Salads.
Why?
Salads are delicious and good for you.
good for you
Not if done correctly.
Asks the guy swinging an axe. We wont explain because you wont understand.
It’s not like I’m asking people to explain quantum mechanics or empathy here.
Is there anyone here who COULD explain empathy? I think not.
I see where you’re coming from with statement.
I feel your skepticism.
Yes, someone here could do it, but why would they?
My salads are usually thrown together extemporaneously with whatever I happen to have. This is why I make sure I never run out of tomato or bell pepper.
No love for avocado or cucumber? Love me some cucumber, tomato, avocado, and red onion salad. Salt, pepper, lime juice and olive oil. Yum.
“Take Five” on ukelele
Pretty cool. I don’t see how she plays with those nails.
I typically keep some things on the side. So I’l put leaves (romaine, arugula, spinach, etc), cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, other stuff in the bowl. Then I typically keep meat (salmon, chicken, shrimp, etc) in another bowl. Then typically some dressing, olive oil, seeds, nuts, cheeses, olives, etc. near. We eat salad every day, at least once a day.
I love salads. We have a pretty standard arugula or spring mix salad every night, with marinated tomatoes and usually homemade bread, and I often have a huge salad with romaine and lots of different vegetables and some beans for lunch. I made cucumber salad yesterday.
My two favorites of the non-green variety are my grandmother’s cabbage salad, and my black bean-edamame salad.
“We have a pretty standard arugula or spring mix salad every night”
Pretty much the same here. I like to buy the pre-washed mixes, it’s too easy, and once you wash leaves bought loose, getting them dry again is a pain in the ass, or maybe I just don’t know the right trick.
Good salad spinner then dump on dish towel and pat rest of way dry. Does pretty good job.
Yes, a salad spinner, as AlmightyJB said. That’s what I do with my lunchtime romaine.
However, for weeknight convenience, we usually buy pre-washed, as well.
Thanks, guys. I’ll have to try the spinner, will open up my choices a little more.
Salad
Foster’s, Australian for beer… made in Canada.
Also, contract-brewed under license to SAB/MillerCoors/InBev right here in Trenton, Ohio.
I used to do their coal-boiler testing. You’d think it impossible, but spending a week of 10-hour days in a plant smelling stale beer all day can really make you….not want beer after work. Didn’t happen to me, but I heard anecdotal reports.
Stale beer is pretty nasty. I’ve cleaned up bottles before after nights of beer drinking with friends, and pouring a stale beer out with a hangover is a strong trigger of the gag reflex.
This explains so much about why it tastes so bad.
Coopers is proper Australian beer.
Salads are what my food eats.
I make a salad for lunch every day. 4 oz. ham/turkey/or roast beef, tomato, red onion , pickles, bibb lettuce, some cheese (swiss or co-jack usually), mustard dressing (sometimes I use a horseradish based spread), served up between two slices of marbled rye.
I enjoy salads as a side, and I have never thought this: “If you want your salad to be a main dish…”
I’m typically the same way but if it’s really hot and I don’t feel like something heavy, I’ll sometimes do a salad as a main. Local Mexican place does a pretty good chicken avacodo that is plenty of food and quite satisfying.
Taco salad is a staple in House Imprudent and a meal unto itself.
And done properly, it contains little nutritional value.
Always enjoy your cooking posts Tulip! I like a pretty simple salad. Iceberg lettuce (other types are fine as well but need something cool and crisp in the mix), grape or chopped tomato, cucumber, red onion, S&P, shredded cheese and dressing (types dependent on mood but pretty flexible as long as they’re complimentary, I tend to prefer creamy over oily).
I also like croutons but not mandatory.
https://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article/4218
I swear I’m not a shill for TJs, but their seed and nut salad topper mix is a great way to add some texture to your salads.
Good tip!
I tend to leave them out because of the carbs. I just use seeds and nuts instead.
I make something that I call the “ancient Roman salad”, which is not entirely accurate in a historical sense, but whatever – it tastes good:
Lettuce, onions, sun-dried tomatoes, walnuts, kalamata olives, and diced anchovies. I also grate in some hard Italian cheese of some kind. Dress it with a simple mixture of olive oil and red wine vinegar.
It’s also good on a pita bread sandwich with capicola ham. Ideally, the pita bread would be sourdough for that rustic flavor, but it’s still delicious on plain pitas.
I love capicola.
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You don’t win friends with salad.
Back when Webdom and I were traveling back and forth to Lincoln, Nebraska, for our business, we stumbled across a fast-casual place in West Des Moines called Mixed. We loved the chilled salad bowls, the entirely customizable nature of the salads with lots of tasty vegan additions, and I was surprised by how much I loved the chopped result. Previously, I was a naysayer about “chopped salads” only ever having had bad renditions.
We loved the place and made it a point to time our drives both directions so we could stop there for a meal.
Our local Giant Eagle has a nice salad bar set up where you can grab a fairly large bowl and fill up with all kinds of veggie goodies. Expensive but convenient.
Serious question: what’s the difference between a chopped salad and a regular salad?
All the ingredients are chopped to a uniform size.
Like in AR 670-1 ?
Just not as anal when it comes to uniformity.
Just not as anal when it comes to uniformity.
It really brings the complexity of the salad into each bite. I’m a convert, when it’s done well.
Jazz Shaw eating Coumo’s salad.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/22/new-york-using-facial-recognition-software-bridges-toll-roads/
A treat for ya’ll
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Yeah, it’s been posted a couple times.
https://youtu.be/TvQWBXJOgAI
And yet JB clicked it again… NTTAWWT
It’s easy enough to hover over the link without actually opening it.
Not on my phone. Unfortunately. I’m exposed to all sorts of horrors here.
I touch the link and don’t let go until I get a pop-over with the URL and options like “open in a new tab” and “open an a private tab”. Chrome on Android.
Cool. Good tip!
…Thicc?
More like a gelatinous blob.
Stop looking at me!
I’d gladly comply with that, and then gouge my eyes out with hot forks.
I’ve done dinner salads on hot days. Mixed greens, tomatoes, pine nuts, dried cranberries, crumbled goat cheese, and topped with thinly sliced pan seared duck breast is one of my favorites.
Ooh, that sounds really good.
Do we give away the secret of our special goat cheese and phyllo croutons?
Lol! I was just thinking about posting that.
Go for it, with the usual precaution.
. . . topped with thinly sliced pan seared duck breast . . .
The Frenchie within me says “DUCK BREAST FOR THE WIN! OOOH LA LA!”
Food? I just got back from lunch. I decided to go someplace and sit down and let somebody else bring me food, for a change. The very nice hostess/manager/owner had her hair braided back into a sort of short pony tail, because it’s summer.
Have I ever mentioned how sexy the nape of woman’s neck can be?
Oh, I’m with you on that.
Well, people like feet too. I actually prefer those 2 little dimples right above a woman’s ass, but that’s just me.
That’s generally what I call the ‘thumb-rest’.
I’m stealing that.
Go ahead. I’m not sure of the legalities, but I think its pubic domain now, anyhow.
You probably walked into that pun ass backwards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimples_of_Venus
More like a gelatinous blob.
The cottage cheese I had with my hamburger was as the most finely polished marble compared to that person’s body.
Reminds me of the time when I was walking around town with one of my cousins, we were maybe 15-16 at the time. There were 3 girls walking together on the other side of the street. One of them was noticeably attractive from that distance. One was just sort of plain and the other was a fat blob. My cousin whistled, of course at the hot one. We were just talking and laughing and next thing I knew, I saw something large approaching from my peripheral version directly behind my cousin. Next thing I know I hear a ‘WHAP!’ and my cousin’s head snapped backwards. The fat one then says ‘Don’t whistle at me, you’re rude!’. My poor cousin, still in a somewhat state of shock and disbelief, manages to get out ‘I wasn’t whistling at you, you stupid bitch, I was whistling at your pretty friend!’. LOL, that was pretty funny, I mean for me.
Don’t forget the white-trash cucumbers/onions swimming in vinegar & sugar that Mama Tres called ‘swamp salad’ !
https://addapinch.com/cucumber-onion-salad-recipe/
Mix in a little mayo and celery seed in there and you got something.
I’m a big fan of exposed front hips and the V in between headed towards the promised land.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRz00gDs8n9hBUHyod89e7y_vYWU5N4yJiFK4lSQsGLrAeovRaU
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/49/9b/bc/499bbc76d9ea9ba8624df972dc1020ab–hip-bones-flat-stomach.jpg
Hip bones
Yeah, but someone please feed those poor girls.
This.
I think they need a bit more than salad.
Would you please pass me the first one?
Kudos on your Q like powers.
Yeah, but someone please feed those poor girls.
One sausage, coming up!
I, Mister Lazy Bones extraordinaire, occasionally will grab one of those pre-fab bagged salads (I like the ones with some purple cabbage, carrots and radishes), and throw in some pulled apart turkey and artichoke hearts and canned wax beans and big olives and anything else I have around. Slather with balsamic dressing, and *voila!*
*guilty secret- I like it even better the nexzt day, when it’s
all soggyinfused with flavorIn honor of this thread, I have pork country style ribs smoking away. Roasted sweet potatoes and homemade slaw to round it out.
You know what else I’m doing? I’M DRINKING AN IPA, BITCHES!!! Ha ha ha ha ha. Suck it!
Sounds delish. I’m sipping a bourbon and lemonade. Contemplating making stewed tomatoes, peppers, red onion with Italian sausage. Served over farfalle or maybe penne. And olives.
Love that dish.
What is this word, “salad”?
You know what else I’m doing? I’M DRINKING AN IPA, BITCHES!!!
Before I crack a beer, I’m going to go do a little steel inventory, to see how much more material I need to fabricate the overhead hoist I’m going to build to pull the motor out of my truck. Why would I build something like that, instead of just getting a cherry picker?
Because I can.
Like I always say: I fucking hate YouTube.
So I went to the Browse Channels section to see what YT recommends.
Under News & Politics, I was recommended the following channels (subscribers):
– The Young Turks (4 M)
– CNN (4.2 M)
– The Majority Report w/Sam Seder (337 k)
– Associated Press (884 k)
– BBC News (2.8 M)
– RockNewmanShow (87 k)
– Thom Hartmann Program (115k)
– Comrade Stump (86 k)
– CBC News (779 k)
– The Guardian (605 k)
Would it kill YouTube to affect even a pretense of objectivity? What would be the harm in putting, for instance, FOX News (1.4 M) in that space? What about Phillip DeFranco (6.2 M), no one’s idea of a right-winger? And Sam Seder? Rock Newman? Thom Hartmann? Comrade Stump?? Can’t two of those non-entities be replaced two on the right, like Stephen Crowder (2.2 M) or Mark Dice (1.2 M)? Roaming Millennial (282 k)?
I don’t expect YT to throw in Julie Borowski or Shane Killian or Freedom Toons – I know libertarians will be excluded in every sphere imaginable. But YT is so goddamned hard to the left, that if David fucking Brooks had a channel, I don’t think even he’d get promoted.
I’m drinking a bourbon barrel stout that is 11% ABV and tastes like bourbon. It tastes like if you just dumped some bourbon in some Guinness. It just leaves me wondering why not just drink bourbon.
Efficiency.
OMWC and I ripped this one off from a restaurant in SoCal many moons ago.
Get yourself a nice log of fairly firm goat cheese and a package of phyllo dough. Make balls out of the goat cheese the size of a golf ball and flatten slightly into pucks. Keep cold. Finely shred the phyllo dough and place in a bowl. Roll the goat cheese in the phyllo, making sure you have the cheese completely covered. This takes a little practice. Place on a baking sheet.
Give the phyllo a dusting of cooking spray like PAM. Bake in a 400 degree oven about ten minutes until the phyllo is brown.
The salad this goes with is mixed greens with a light vinegarette. Champagne vinegar works well here.
Peel, core and dice a pear that is not quite ripe. Carmelize this in butter being careful not to let the pears get too mushy.
Toast and chop some pecans.
Plate the greens and top with the carmelized pears, and some toasted pecans. Nestle you still hot goat cheese crouton in the middle and serve immediately.
This folks, is a salad that will get you laid.
Are…are (((you people))) trying to de-meat the libertarian movement? Listen, my libertarianism has three core tenants. Beef, booze, and weapons (BBW, for short). You’re directly attacking one of my core principles here.
Spud is as Irish as Rosie O’Donnell.
Are you saying that there aren’t any (((Irishmen)))?
And regardless, it explains plenty. If I had nothing to eat besides corned beef, potatoes, and cabbage I’d probably find salad exciting, too.
I met an Indian (dot not feather) Jew this week. Damndest thing. Introduced to me by a Cypriot. It was a regular UN general assembly.
Jews in India.
Thank you. Interesting. https://youtu.be/eEEFUv84ub8
Nice song, thanks!
I had a (((friend))) discussing The Troubles with me. He figured he would have no problems visiting Northern Ireland and I had to explain to him that in that venue he was either a (((Protestant))) or a (((Catholic))).
And this vignette is much more amusing to me written in this fashion.
A gunman sticks a gun in the back of a man walking through Belfast.
“Are you Catholic or Protestant?” the gunman asks.
The man thinks, “If I say Protestant and he’s Catholic, I’m dead. But if I say Catholic and he’s Protestant, I’m dead.”
With sudden inspiration, the man blurts out, “I’m Jewish!”
The gunman begins to laugh hysterically.
“What’s so funny?” asks the man.
The gunman replies, “Faith and begorrah, sure and I’m the luckiest Arab in all of Ireland.”
But I’m a lot prettier.
Spud at our last meet-up.
If you’re trying to get in the pants of a vegetarian, this will get you a long ways down the road.
There is but one libertarian diet god and Taubs is his prophet.
This folks, is a salad that will get you laid.
Does that last statement require that you have the goat in the back yard and some muck boots? I don’t do goat cheese. It tastes like goat.
I’ve never eaten out a goat.
Fun fact- PAM is an acronym for the founder. “Product of Arthur Meyerhoff”
He’s also the same dude that started the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during WWII.
err…”managed” the AAGPBL.
Wrigley started it.
Does he have a sister?
Thanks – this is now in my recipe folder
I am definitely making this.
Went to pick up a chicken dinner from the local american Legion, and got home only to ffind no guess what’s missing from the container? Unbelievable, you’re packing up dinners for two days. Beside the visual inspection, the weight alone would tell you it’s missing. And now, no more ready chickens. Waiting on the grill.
Once again AL proves itself as a collection of people who want to relive the glory days of being in the service. I just want my fucking chicken I paid for.
I often add dried fruit – raisins, dried cherries, or dried cranberries, even sun-dried tomatoes
I was going to say you are dead to me for the fruit in a leafy salad as fruit only belongs in fruit salads, but then you gave me a shout out for the cucumber salad so I will be polite. I have seen that Sumac salad you mentioned referred to as Iraqi salad on some sites that I don’t remember. The Iraqi kurds do not eat a meal that does not involve cucumbers and tomatoes.
That salmon salad looks great. Thanks. I will give that one a try. This afternoon it is bourbon peach cobbler time.
Your thoughts on fruit in beer?
My only experience with fruit in beer until a few years ago was Shock Top and I am meh. The last time I left my last good job a buddy brought me a mix of Australian beers some of which where fruit themed and we got drunk in the smoking pavilion at my hotel as is the custom in Australia. I liked them so I must say I have no aversion to fruit in beer. Salads though, I am more a savory than sweet kind of guy. Fruit and nuts throws me off. As to eating goat, and anything goat related, or sheep for that matter. It gives me flashbacks with even the slightest hint of goat or sheep flavor that reminds me of the smell and I am thrown back to working on barren hills in 120 degree heat where the goat/sheep herders took their shit covered ungodly stinking herds to graze. Graze on what I don’t know. There where no living plants. I have PTGSD. Post Traumatic Goat Stress Disorder.
(No offense to anyone who actually has PTSD I just worked over there and only had a couple people want to kill me)
Mixed green salad with thin-sliced steak, chunks of blue cheese and fresh strawberries or raspberries. Oil and vinegar dressing. Yum.
I don’t wanna go back to work tomorrow. ?
We had left over bbq for dinner with a small side salad. I’m settling into a nice glass of Colonel EH Taylor small batch to make me forget how much tomorrow is gonna suck.
Cheers Glibs. *raises glass*
I don’t either. I had vacation days on Thursday and Friday.
I don’t wanna go back to work tomorrow.
Same here, but what will make it easier as I’m working at home tomorrow to meet a contractor.
*tink*
Me either especially since I had to work half a day today. With a hangover. But I get to go in an hour later this week so extra sleep is good.
That salmon salad looks delicious.
OT: StuG III 1/72 scale, it’s all you’re guy’s fault,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7Vpd9PybwuNeJzi79
Excellent!
You do a much better job with models than I ever did.
He huffs freon for a living. Keeps him uber-focused.
HEY YUFUS!
We did , back in the Tweaking days, I’ll tell you though,1/72 is a tight , Small scale to work with, but I can do Omaha Beach without using my entire Garage, so there’s that, More Later………..
/Painting
You huffed freon and twerked? 😮
Speed, My Man, Meth, Crank, Black Beauties, stuff designed to waste your Beer money, and your Teeth,and sometimes your Life,
/TMIATT
And those aren’t paint mistakes at all, that’s mud/dirt, for real, when I get to landscaping, I’ll throw some dirt,grass on my pieces as well, looks lived in ya know……
That’s very impressive.
TY!, MikeS? made a suggestion so……………
I’ll be back in Normandy in early October. Want me to get some photos of some of the Panzers they have dotted around the landscape as monuments? They’re way cool. Saw one on the last trip that had four inches (approx. 100mm) of armour in the front with a HUGE “crater” in it from some unknown ordinance that had been fired at it. Right near the old train station (now decommissioned and abandoned) that has one wall completely spalled from .50 cal machine-gun fire.
Normandy’s awesome. And they don’t forget their liberators, particularly along the coast. 70+ years later and they’re still grateful and remarkably humbled by what the Brits, Canucks and Yanks did for them.
Please! do this!, I won’t be near finished til next year, it would be Helpful….
Great post, Tulip. I always like reading about cooking/food.
Speaking of reading about food, here is a Yelp review of “LA’s Top Restaurant” according to LA Times food critic Jonathan Goldman. https://www.yelp.com/biz/vespertine-culver-city?hrid=oXcDAVAdiESRBZuWEX5Bag&utm_source=ishare&utm_content=review
Jonathan Gold, and former, since he just died.
But he was so healthy and young!?!
He died happy. Who are you to judge, you sarcastic prick?
Oh, I’m well aware of Goldman’s proclivities. He probably died with a taco in one hand, and a half chewed pork bun dim sum in his mouth. I listened to his restaurant reviews pretty much every week for the last 20 years. Godspeed, you fat happy taco loving Jew badtard.
Its almost like Grandpa Jones and David Crosby had a love-child.
Always second-best?
My meal’s already been ruined, and I haven’t even looked at the menu yet.
No one has seemed to notice that Trump does not move his arms when he walks. I’m serious, go look at any video of him walking. There is a conscious effort on his part not to sway his arms. It’s his most disconcerting and suspicious trait.
I would never go to this place, and I haven’t even gotten to the paragraph talking about the food yet.
What kills me about pictures of Trump is when he is sitting in a cabinet meeting, arms folded up, no scrunched up. It’s the damnedest thing.
Daptone + Charles Bradley go Studio-One style
I like that.
I restarted the video three times thinking my antique Mac Mini was skitzing out and overheating before I figured out that is what you meant by Studio One style…….%$#*
Good stuff
its a shorthand term for “jamaican soul/roots/dance music” (rocksteady, reggae, roots, proto-ska, etc) of the 1960s
almost everything popular during that period was being recorded by a single studio , and it had a very distinct sound
Worst “sports” movie- Over The Top?
Cool Running is the best sports movie ever made.
Endless Summer
Endless Summer
Why?
I’m just ribbing you (plural “you”, not just you) when I post the really bad earworms.
The Set-Up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Any_Sunday
Any Ron Shelton sports movie. His movies have so much extraneous crap that ostensibly make the movie more realistic, but in reality is just distracting as hell.
What is your definition of “Sports”
Not that.
There is a lot of skill involved. You can’t just show up and win. You need at least 3 runes.
This has a lot of skill involved:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kx1GVYPOos
he put like no effort into his character
It’s Bun E. Carlos cosplay.
JAWS.
fishing is a kind of sport.
“sport fishing”
How can you hate Cannon films?
And no, there are a lot of worse sports movies. Off the top of my head:
Elmer the Great
It Happened in Athens
The Jackie Robinson Story
Headin’ Home
How the hell could I have forgotten Ice Castles?
I am literally watching the worst ice skating movie as I type this. I present to you “Falling For Christmas “.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5574012/
It was a made-for-Canadian-TV special, now streaming on Amazon Prime. It sucks.
made-for-Canadian-TV special
So I assume it ended up on the Hallmark Channel?
I, Tonya was very good.
League of Their Own might be the best sports movie. And I have nothing but disdain for female sports. Second pick? Happy Gilmore. And I don’t even consider golf a sport.
Another good look at women’s sports is Hard, Fast, and Beautiful.
HM will be so disappointed clicking on that link.
How is golf not a sport? It has a ball.
The best sports movie is Personal Best.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084489/
I can’t see her face without thinking of this godawful movie called Sex Monster about a guy who kind of looks like Steve Young who wants a threesome with his wife, but ends up cut out of the loop and his wife goes on a carpet munching bender. Before coming back to him for some reason.
Yeah, if I remember, that movie was pretty bad.
Pre-implants Mariel Hemingway naked.
No, I don’t remember it.
/looks around nervously for SP and her rusty tin can lid
“Toe pick!”
Driven
Caddyshack II
*a contender
i went to see this movie as a high-school kid w/ a friend because we thought it was going to be a story about “old school football”…
…but was really instead about Dennis Quaid’s depressing broken homelife w/ Jessica Lange.
really, its mostly a movie about ‘keeping a marriage together’, with a few clips of 1950s era football. we were like the only people in the theater younger than 60. We realized we should probably read reviews of movies in the future.
I’m almost done my Dark n Stormy. I shouldn’t have another. Work tomorrow and I need to get back on the weight loss wagon.
I’m almost done my Dark n Stormy.
So is Trump.
You’re right, I should get another.
Yeah. You deserve it.
After vacation and BIF, I’m jumping back on the weight loss wagon tomorrow as well. It’s going to suck, and I’ll most likely be annoyed for the first several weeks. I’ve already warned the girlfriend, and she’s going out of town to visit her aunt for a week soon.
“What are your favorite salads?”
The salad I eat most often is simply romaine, tomato, and cucumber.
I also like cold cooked beets and cucumber. I usually add dill. Sometime I add cheese (chevre, stilton, etc.) and walnuts, but I usually don’t.
Another thing I enjoy are cruciferous salads. And I don’t mean kimchi or coleslaw, although those are good as well. Shredded red cabbage, chopped bok choy, sliced napa, etc. make nice fresh salads. They pair well with “asian” inspired dressings. (Cruciferous florets such as broccoli and cauliflower are good raw when served with creamy dressing as a dip, but I don’t want to argue whether crudite is a salad.)
Is there anyway we can make this required reading in public school? Because I think this is somehow missing from history and social studies class.
Glories of Socialism
The wrong people were in charge didn’t hit it hard enough not real socialism, fuckin’ wreckers and hoarders. We will show you this time!
Oh, if I didn’t mention it before, glad to see you back.
Thank you. Good to be back.
Ambien and off to bed now.